Middle Aged Memories
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This was my favorite toy, actually belonged to my brothers, but they could not design a house like I could. No wonder when I was 38 I finally discovered what I wanted to do for a career (I work for an Architect). The only down side was my Mom was throwing them out block by block because they were shedding the styrafoam pellets everywhere.
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My brother's had this one too!
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The styrofoam building blocks! We had them for a short while. A neighbor was moving and gave them to our family. Ours were white with little blue flecks in the,n, md they made a wonderful squeak when you wiggled them together. I think they disappeared after I found that you could really pick apart the little pieces once one broke in half. I had totally forgot about those, thanks for the memory, kal.
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I had a weird snap together building set. The pieces were plastic. The red ones looked like an I-beam, the yellow ones did too but they were curved into a banana shape. That was all the pieces. Everything that you could possible build with them looked abstract and not architectural at all. I didn't even like them for that reason. Wish I could find a pic of those, and you would see how useless they were.
Here's something I played with at school:
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elimar, take a look at this one
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Looks like you could at least make something with those!
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Any one else have one of these? I played with mine for hours. It had a little satnd so when you made the perfect picture you could stand it up for everyone to see, and for your siblings to destroy.
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Meece mine was not as sophisticated as yours
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I wanted that Silly Sand, but got the old, "That'll make a big mess" response. To this day, I enjoy going to the beach and making "drip castles."
I know I also played with The Magic Window, probably just in the toy aisle at the store. Now, I find it hilarious that they fancied it up by calling it Microdioum Crystals...aha-ha-ha!
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I remember Silly Sand but never had any. I also love to make drip castles on the beach.
Supposedly Microdium is a fossil crab. I wonder if Whammo found a bunch of fossilized crabs and ground them up?
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Still have a set of "Jarts" as they were once called. Heard they can be deadly, but I live for danger.
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Oh if my mom only knew what we really did with the yard darts she woulda freaked. Lets just say there were a few close calls. We also had to threaten the little sister a few times so she wouldnt tell on us. Ahhh good times. Well at the time they were, lol.
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I was always the little sister being threatened.
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Did anyone have one of these? I remember bringing it out in my front yard and making sno cones for the neighborhood kids.
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Wow, Meece! I love seeing my old snow cone maker. Came with the cups that had the pointed bottom, but when they ran out had to switch to the standard Dixie Cups.
When my kids were little, I got them the Snoopy Snow Cone Maker. Cute, but not as cute as the retro snowman one! I'm going to dig around the cupboard and see if it still is in there.
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O wow does the snowcone maker bring back memories.
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I had the Sno cone maker AND I had my peanut butter maker too! I was quite the entrepreneur on my front lawn with sno cones, peanut butter and lemonade.
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Wow! You had the "Supercenter" of lemonade stands!
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elimar, the funniest thing was that we lived on a road that maaaaybe would get 5 cars (other than the neighbors cars) during the course of a week...only the teenagers out trolling. i would sit there for hours screaming advertisements AND of course, there was always some other kid on the block that i was fueding with that would have a rival stand...LOL!!!
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I heard Sam Walton started the exact same way.
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Our best customer was the mailman, Mr. Fink.
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and the milkman (can't remember his name...)
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Hey hippies, remember the stretched soda bottle vases?
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Or what about when Coke had NFL or MLB All-Stars inside the caps?
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I loved to watch the different dance party shows on t.v., there was a local one that was on M-F after school; and of course, American Bandstand and later Soul Train. Remember Dick Clark had the kids Rate A Record? ("I'll give it a 7 1/2 because it had a good beat I can dance to.")
I do remember these shows started out all White and all Black, in that "separate but equal" thing they had going back then. Not sure what year everyone got to dance together finally.
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This is the first camera I remember our family having...the Kodak Brownie (Hawkeye model.) Oh, those blue flashbulbs gave you some serious retina burn!!!
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This is the first Brownie Camera I remember our family having. Fondly referred to as "The red camera".
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Oh, about that camera, I remember a metal button on the back to pop the spent bulbs out. We loved putting it back in and popping it back out.
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